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Slitherine has announced a release date for its turn-based strategy war game Battle Academy 2 - it's coming to Steam and Slitherine's own online store on September 12.

You can take control of either Axis or Soviet forces on the Eastern Front of World War Two in four solo campaigns, reworked multiplayer and a new co-op mode.

The big draw here is the randomisation options; custom skirmish missions allow you to tweak with almost every aspect of the game map, including terrain, buildings, weather, level of destruction and more. It's varied enough that once you've finished with the singleplayer campaings you should have a tonne of scope for creating your own interesting battles.

Sounds like a decent amount of content to keep you occupied. As for other main features, here's what Slitherine are promising:

Features:

Control both the Axis and Soviet forces in more than 30 missions across 4 single player campaigns and corresponding multiplayer missions.

More than 130 units storm across the battlefield. Learn the hard lessons of the early war in Panzer III and BT-7, or feel the ground shake to fury of the Tiger, Panther, T-34 and IS-2.

New gameplay features include smoke, infantry dash, fighter cover, partial damage, and trenches – along with a detailed combat model that’s second-to-none.

The seamless multiplayer experience has been expanded with the addition of cooperative support – can you and a friend work together to defeat the enemy?

And already fearsome modding flexibility has been further expanded with editor improvements including automatic edging, achievement editor, and reinforcements. All atop a powerful scripting system giving complete control of all the game systems.